We came up with a list of the characteristics we felt were necessary to achieve our objective. The game must have a strong narrative , with twists and turns in the spirit of Charade or Where Eagles Dare.

It must feature a fiercely competent hero and an assortment of despicable villains. The hero must have access to an impressive arsenal of weapons and gadgets worthy of Our Man Flint , Danger: Diabolik , or Get Smart.

There must be memorable, death-defying situations, opportunities for stealth as well as all-out action , and a variety of exotic locales to explore.

Finally, every aspect of the presentation must convincingly evoke the era. The game was announced at the Electronic Entertainment Expo E3 conference show.

By at least July , Monolith has decided to introduce many major changes to the game; the main reason being that the gaming press unexpectedly started comparing the game to James Bond games , like GoldenEye But a woman with those same characteristics immediately stood out because of the social climate of the time.

The female protagonist "went through numerous concept sketches, costume designs, hairstyles, names, and even nationalities. This was changed after a Scottish producer of the game felt that the particular accent used was too lower class, and an inappropriate choice; Harris re-recorded her lines with a " British bent " instead.

Stealth was too unforgiving. Once you were spotted, you were playing an action game. We started this project with a pretty sober view of what we could achieve.

As a result, every major feature we outlined made it into the game, as well as a few additional items we came up with during the project.

However, a number of remnants stemming from the earlier gameplay design can be seen in some of the released maps, such as the office of the aforementioned mayor seen in the Morocco map.

The game is based on Lithtech 2. The AI can try and investigate the source of these stimuli, by following the footprints for example, and can sound alarms or call for backup.

During combat, the AI finds cover positions, and, to some extent, can also use its environment for protection, such as flipping over a table and hiding behind it.

For example, one guard might start firing at the player, while another runs and calls for backup. Stealth Assassins , Syphon Filter , and GoldenEye , because the team was "interested in a blend of stealth and action rather than focusing on one or the other exclusively.

Thematically, influences behind The Operative: No One Lives Forever were primarily s spy-themed films, novels, television shows, as well as historical references.

Diabolik , Avengers — anything I could get my hands on. Humor plays an important role in No One Lives Forever. Regarding comparisons between the game and the Austin Powers film series, Hubbard pointed out on several occasions that, unlike Austin Powers , No One Lives Forever is not a parody of the spy genre.

That dichotomy in tone results in a very different style of humor from a parody, where everything is in good fun and nobody, including the characters, takes anything very seriously.

The game uses DirectMusic technology, and its music is an example of an adaptive score: Instead, it featured original music by Rebecca Kneubuhl, and mixed by Gabriel Mann.

Kneubuhl and Mann also provided vocals for the title theme. The game was released with bonus s-inspired music on the second CD.

The songs available on this album, titled In the Lounge , were not featured in the game, but were specifically written as extra material.

The 9 songs were written by Rebecca Kneubuhl who created the in-game score for the later PlayStation 2 port as well , and were recorded at Asylum Studios.

A different version of In the Lounge was also created. This includes the same 9 original tracks, although in a slightly different order.

In , Monolith Productions released a set of editing tools for No One Lives Forever that included the level editor and model editor used for development.

This port of the game was released on April 18, [51] although it was originally intended for a release , [52] and was again published jointly by Sierra and Fox.

The PlayStation 2 version of the game included three exclusive flashback levels not available in other releases of the game titled "Nine Years Ago", in which the player controls a younger Cate Archer, when she used to be a cat burglar.

Each of the new levels is accessed during several moments in the original story, when Cate is knocked out by Armstrong.

Similarly to the Windows version of the game, the Mac OS X port also uses GameSpy technology for its online multiplayer mode, allowing players to play with each other, no matter which platform they use.

With the rise of digital distribution in video games in the latter part of the s, there has been speculation about a possible re-release, or even a remake of the titles in the No One Lives Forever series.

After the merger, Activision decided to sell off some IPs and retain others. In order to find out the legal details behind NOLF , Amrich asked his colleagues, saying that "[t]he person that I normally talk to about this stuff does not believe that we [at Activision] currently have the rights.

Interactive Entertainment , who also did not know who the IP belonged to. When asked about the rights to the game in July , NOLF designer Craig Hubbard also expressed confusion about the legal complexities behind the series.

According to Hubbard, "my understanding was that Monolith owned the IP and Fox owned the title of the first game, which was technically The Operative: No One Lives Forever.

I think Monolith actually owned A Spy in H. Fox got acquired by VUG, which in turn got acquired by Activision, while Monolith got bought by Warner Brothers, so some stars would have to align for everything to get sorted out.

A possible venue for re-release of the games would be computer game sale and distribution service GOG. In an interview with GOG. Night Dive attempted to work with Fox and Activision to search their archives, but as these transitions pre-dated computerized records, neither company wanted to do so.

No One Lives Forever received critical acclaim upon its release, and has an Critical reception of the PlayStation 2 port of No One Lives Forever was much less positive than the original version.

It has a Retrospective articles written about the game have also been positive. It was followed by a sequel in , entitled No One Lives Forever 2: In , a spin-off of the first two game was released, entitled Contract J.

This stand-alone expansion pack is a shorter game, and unlike the previous titles, its main protagonist is not Cate Archer, but John Jack, who works for H.

The game also focuses more on action gameplay, rather than on stealth. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Box art, portraying protagonist Cate Archer.

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In an opinion poll commissioned by Lund University in August , the general public of Sweden were asked to choose one measure that would ensure their need for privacy when subject to CCTV-operation in public spaces.

Computer-controlled cameras can identify, track, and categorize objects in their field of view. Video content analysis VCA is the capability of automatically analyzing video to detect and determine temporal events not based on a single image , but rather object classification.

A system using VCA can recognize changes in the environment and even identify and compare objects in the database using size, speed, and sometimes colour.

For example; an alarm can be issued if an object has moved in a certain area, or if a painting is missing from a wall, or if a smoke or fire is detected, or if running people are detected, or if fallen people are detected and if someone has spray painted the lens, as well as video loss, lens cover, defocus and other so called camera tampering events.

VCA analytics can also be used to detect unusual patterns in an environment. The system can be set to detect anomalies in a crowd, for instance a person moving in the opposite direction in airports where passengers are supposed to walk only in one direction out of a plane or in a subway where people are not supposed to exit through the entrances.

VCA can track people on a map by calculating their position from the images. It is then possible to link many cameras and track a person through an entire building or area.

This can allow a person to be followed without having to analyze many hours of film. Currently the cameras have difficulty identifying individuals from video alone, but if connected to a key-card system, identities can be established and displayed as a tag over their heads on the video.

There is also a significant difference in where the VCA technology is placed, either the data is being processed within the cameras on the edge or by a centralized server.

Both technologies have their pros and cons. A facial recognition system is a computer application for automatically identifying or verifying a person from a digital image or a video frame from a video source.

One of the ways to do this is by comparing selected facial features from the image and a facial database.

The combination of CCTV and facial recognition has been tried as a form of mass surveillance , but has been ineffective because of the low discriminating power of facial recognition technology and the very high number of false positives generated.

This type of system has been proposed to compare faces at airports and seaports with those of suspected terrorists or other undesirable entrants.

Insta Types of body-movement behavior, or particular types of clothing or baggage. Conservative critics fear the possibility that one would no longer have anonymity in public places.

Comparatively harmless are people counter systems. They use CCTV equipment as front end eyes of devices which perform shape recognition technology in order to identify objects as human beings and count people passing pre-defined areas.

Most CCTV systems may record and store digital video and images to a digital video recorder DVR or, in the case of IP cameras, directly to a server, either on-site or offsite.

There is a cost in the retention of the images produced by CCTV systems. The amount and quality of data stored on storage media is subject to compression ratios, images stored per second, image size and is effected by the retention period of the videos or images.

Recordings may be retained for a preset amount of time and then automatically archived, overwritten or deleted, the period being determined by the organisation that generated them.

Closed-circuit digital photography CCDP is more suited for capturing and saving recorded high-resolution photographs, whereas closed-circuit television CCTV is more suitable for live-monitoring purposes.

However, an important feature of some CCTV systems is the ability to take high resolution images of the camera scene, e.

Images taken with a digital still camera often have higher resolution than those taken with some video cameras.

Increasingly, low-cost high-resolution digital still cameras can also be used for CCTV purposes. Images may be monitored remotely when the computer is connected to a network.

It is estimated that was the first year that IP cameras outsold analog cameras. IP can optionally be transmitted across the public internet, allowing users to view their cameras through any internet connection available through a computer or a phone, this is considered remote access.

For professional or public infrastructure security applications, IP video is restricted to within a private network or VPN , [] or can be recorded onto a remote server.

The city of Chicago operates a networked video surveillance system which combines CCTV video feeds of government agencies with those of the private sector, installed in city buses, businesses, public schools, subway stations, housing projects etc.

It is estimated to incorporate the video feeds of a total of 15, cameras. While the system is far too vast to allow complete real-time monitoring, it stores the video data for later usage in order to provide possible evidence in criminal cases.

It uses a network protocol called Television Network Protocol to allow access to many more cameras than each individual system owner could afford to run and maintain.

The Glynn County Police Department uses a wireless mesh-networked system of portable battery-powered tripods for live megapixel video surveillance and central monitoring of tactical police situations.

The systems can be used either on a stand-alone basis with secure communications to nearby police laptops, or within a larger mesh system with multiple tripods feeding video back to the command vehicle via wireless, and to police headquarters via 3G.

Integrated systems allow different security systems, like CCTV, access control, intruder alarms and intercoms to operate together. For example, when an intruder alarm is activated, CCTV cameras covering the intrusion area are recorded at a higher frame rate and transmitted to an Alarm Receiving Centre.

Many consumers are turning to wireless security cameras for home surveillance. Wireless cameras are also easy and inexpensive to install, but lack the reliability of hard-wired cameras.

In Wiltshire , UK , , a pilot scheme for what is now known as "Talking CCTV" was put into action; allowing operators of CCTV cameras to order offenders to stop what they were doing, ranging from ordering subjects to pick up their rubbish and put it in a bin to ordering groups of vandals to disperse.

Other towns have had such cameras installed. In several of the devices were installed in Bridlington town centre, East Riding of Yorkshire.

Due to the widespread implementation of surveillance cameras, glasses are being built which can defeat CCTV cameras.

Unless physically protected, CCTV cameras have been found to be vulnerable against a variety of mostly illegal tactics: The price will go up depending on specific requirements or the extent of the security that will be required.

Among other factors, the specific type of camera being used has the most significant impact on its cost.

Different brands can also have different prices. The type of technology used also has an impact of security camera installation cost.

Wireless camera systems are generally more expensive than their wired counterparts. The specific type of software that is being used also has a role to play on its price.

Network attached storage or DVR , used for storing recorded video, will also be part of the cost. This will depend on the storage capacity and other features of the device chosen by the user.

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